After the departure of Charisgawaji, the people looked to the new Shogun, Zedrick III, for leadership. Zedrick III was zealous regarding the duties of the Shogunate and mindful of the war against the gaijin, but he was also conscientious of his duties toward the people. In his day, the Japanese Senate was largely a powerless body, as he held the true reigns of power; nevertheless Zedrick III continued to allow it to exist, as it occasionally would come forward with a useful suggestion, and he foresaw a day when it would be needed again.
950 AD (0): Harbour purchased in Tonwanda to bring luxuries to the people of that island.
960 AD (1): A lone contingent of Samurai have claimed a mountain east of Konigsberg in Germany, in defiance of the gaijin swine. A unit of archers and a unit of warriors attack, and are destroyed. Tonwanda starts constructing a temple to the Mother. A Samurai on the tundra Island north of the Roman continent defeats an uncouth barbarian warrior. 2 more Samurai attack Konigsberg and are repulsed, they withdraw to the Mountain. 2 Samurai and a catapult land near Heidelberg.
970 AD (2): Two more units of gaijin warriors attack the Mountain Samurai and are again defeated - by this time all the Samurai on the Mountain are gravely depleted in strength and reduced to living off the land, but their determination remains as strong as ever. 2 Samurai attack Heidelberg and are repulsed. 2 more Samurai and a catapult land near Heidelberg.
980 AD (3): Zedrick III decides the time has come to remove the pitiful Greek presence from the Mother's earth, and declares war. Samurai move into position to attack Corinth, while 3 catapults and 3 Samurai land near Delphi. The assault on Heidelberg is stalled waiting for fresh troops.
990 AD (4): Corinth and Delphi are sacked and razed. A Caravel defeats a Greek Galley, defeating it but becoming heavily damaged in the process. Reinforcements consisting of 6 Samurai contingents land near Heidelberg.
1000 AD (5): The Mountain Samurai again defeat an attempt to dislodge them, destroying an archer brigade. They then spot an archer in the open, march out to destroy it, and withdraw to the safety of the mountain. 2 Samurai and a catapult land near Leipzig and prepare to attack. The Konigsberg survivors decide to make a break for it and attempt to link up with the Leipzig attackers. Our glorious Samurai finally overwhelm the defenders at Heidelberg and capture it. Heidelberg begins construction of a Barracks. Our wounded withdraw to the city while some of the Samurai and our catapults continue towards Berlin. Our catapults and Samurai move toward Knossos, while the damaged caravel moves toward the former location of Corinth to pick up the troops waiting there.
1010 AD (6): The Mountain Samurai defeat another archer brigade. Our Samurai assaulting Leipzig capture the city; production of a Barracks is begun. Resistance is ended in Heidelberg, and the barracks is purchased. The Konigsberg survivors arrive at Leipzig, and the Mountain Samurai decide that the time has come to withdraw there as well. Knossos repulses an attack by elite Samurai.
1020 AD (7): The Mountain Samurai are ambushed while en route to Leipzig! They fight valiantly and slay many of the enemy archers, but they have been fighting so long on the mountain that they cannot remember how to fight well on the plains, and are eventually destroyed. In retaliation, one of the conquerers of Leipzig moves out and mows the archers down like so much wheat, then returns to Leipzig. Resistance ends in Leipzig and a barracks is purchased. A preliminary assault on Berlin destroys 2 defenders while reinforcements land at Heidelberg. The latter completes the barracks and starts a temple. The conquerors of Corinth arrive to reinforce the siege of Knossos.
1030 AD (8): Knossos is captured, and Great Leader Fujiwara emerges during the fighting! His orders are to form an army and set sail for Germany as soon as the troops in Knossos are healed at the captured Barracks. The army will only be able to hold 2 Samurai in order to fit on the Caravel. Berlin is captured. Zedrick III cannot bring himself to destroy the Great Library, even though it is obsolete. It will be used to hold the history of the victory of the Nipponese forces against the gaijin tribes of the world! The captured barracks at Berlin will be used to heal our wounded, and the city starts production of a temple, as does Leipzig, which just completed a Barracks. The temple at Heidelberg is purchased. Samurai from Leipzig destroy 2 contingents of archers in the field near the town, then muster toward Berlin for replenishment. Attackers at Berlin move toward Hamburg. Samurai land near Konigsberg on the mountain and prepare to assault the city. They shall know vengeance for the destruction of the Mountain Samurai!
1040 AD (9): More Samurai reinforcements arrive in Heidelberg. Resistance in Berlin is ended! Our Samurai move in towards Hamburg and Frankfurt. 6 Samurai attack Konigsberg from the slopes of the mountain and raze it. There is a gaijin Caravel patrolling the waters near Heidelberg -- looks like the Germans have discovered Astronomy. Zedrick III does not bother to check what advances they have made recently, as they are soon to be destroyed anyway.
1050 AD (10): The German Caravel is sunk, after sinking one of ours (which was empty.) Hamburg is assaulted from the slopes of a nearby mountain and razed. Wounded troops withdraw toward Berlin, while fresh troops press on toward Munich. This includes the conquerors of Konigberg, and Fujiwara's army also lands near Munich. Several Samurai take up positions in the hills above Frankfurt in preparation for an assault on that city.
At this point, Zedrick III feels his work as Shogun is done. He has left the army in a situation where it impossible that it should fail in destroying the gaijin. Instead, in his old age, he begins to work with the Senate, weeding out those that are corrupt or ineffectual, and replacing them with intelligent and decisive men, many Samurai among them. For he knows that the people will require strong leadership in times of peace as well as in times of war, and that in times of peace the people do not wish to be led by the Shogun. Nevertheless, the office of Shogun is maintained, for there will ever be a need for vigilance, and that will be the hallmark of the position of Shogun from this point onwards...
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). Still, I'll be following them with interest.
